And he [a]was afraid, and got up and ran for his [b]life and came to (A)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah; and he left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and (B)he asked for himself to die, and said, “Enough! Now, Lord, take my [c]life, for I am no better than my fathers.” Then he lay down and fell asleep under a broom tree; but behold, there was (C)an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat!” And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a round loaf of bread baked on hot coals, and a pitcher of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again. But the angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him, and said, “Arise, eat; because the journey is too long for you.” So he arose and ate and drank, and he journeyed in the strength of that food for (D)forty days and forty nights to (E)Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 19:3 Reading of many mss; MT may read saw
  2. 1 Kings 19:3 Lit soul
  3. 1 Kings 19:4 Lit soul

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